Wednesday, June 27, 2012

This example of Olympic knitting was done on a rail in Saltburn-by-the-Sea Pier in Teesside

Did you know that Ravelry was sent a "cease & desist" notice from the U.S, Olympics on their annual [3rd] hosted "Ravelympics," a knitting competition for users that includes events like an "afghan marathon," and "scarf hockey." Knitters were supposed to compete in their events while watching the actual games on TV.

It appears that the U.S. Olympic Committee has sent a "cease and desist" letter to the knit/crochet community, Ravelry, for hosting a knitting "olympics." Now, knitters are outraged!

The USOC demanded Ravelry change the name to the "Ravelry Games? A recent update stated that the U.S. Olympic Committee apologized 2x to knitters everywhere. Be sure to read the whole article here...

Maybe they should just switch to crochet???? lol.... really I searched Ravelry and cannot find many groups on there doing it this year???? Maybe I searched wrong???

I thought how fun it would be to see who will be crocheting during the Olympic games? If you will, what will you be crocheting? I thought that it would be fun to feature crocheters across the world...So if you do crochet during the Olympics send me a link to your projects and I will feature them here on "Crochetoholic's" blog for a "Crocheting During the Games" day....just leave a comment during the Olympics days July 27- August 12th....Let's see how many of us are crocheting during the games....

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Twinkie Chan is having a giveaway on her blog. Three people will win an iphone 4 cover, a notebook and a 20% discount at her etsy shop. Go here to enter! You may remember that I made a pizza scarf from one of her patterns

Friday, June 22, 2012

Our Stitch n' Chicks "LYC" had its annual "Summer" party, this year the theme was "Beach" and we got dressed for the occasion and then we had a "decorate your pail" contest...very crafty...what fun we had included in this was a silly "Fashion Parade" through the living room into the kitchen then the voting began...I won the "Fashion" beach wear contest, [I wore my bikini, fish earrings and necklace, sun glasses, made my flip flops and had on my sun hat with my bag full of yarn to crochet on the beach] and I won for my pail, and Maria won for her pretty pail...Pat's pail was hilarious, she cut out pictures from magazines and added our faces to the photos...it was fantastic!!! Our prizes were sand pails filled with a beach towel and crossword puzzle book with a large candy bar...Yummy everything we need to take to the beach... Patricia did a wonderful job putting it together....what fun...oh yeah and I won playing L,C, R, game and Maria won all the YARN!!!! WOW!!!!

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Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' I must be insane then??? Since I crochet over and over again!! What would Einstein say to doing that I wonder?